212 Quotes About Vegetables

  • Author Carlos Santana
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    I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

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  • Author Curtis Stone
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    I grow my own vegetables and herbs. I like being able to tell people that the lunch I'm serving started out as a seed in my yard.

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  • Author Curtis Stone
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    For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free.

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  • Author Edward Said
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    Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

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  • Author Gail Simmons
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    I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

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  • Author Gail Simmons
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    At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

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  • Author Hu Shih
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    Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

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  • Author Jean-Paul Sartre
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    You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.

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  • Author Joel Salatin
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    Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.

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